What’s going on here!

What exactly is science fiction? We all know what the purists say: many of the greatest and most entertaining science fiction films ever made simply do not qualify.

Okay, so the science is lousy or non-existent. The situations are absurd. Nearly human robots shouldn't be making mechanical clunking and grinding noises when they think and spaceships shouldn't scream and whine in a vacuum. Two guys can't design a rocket for the moon and that mad scientist obviously doesn't know the basics of modern biology!

But we all know they're fun.

And in the end, isn't that what matters?

So grab the popcorn, settle back in the big, comfy easy chair and enjoy. After all, it has to be good...

But, Wait! There Will Be More!

Month: March 2016

Imagine, a cult film that spawned an entire genre of trashy films… The Psychotronic Man was one of those one man band films, where the director, Jack M. Sell, also shot the film, edited it and co-wrote the script with his star, Peter Spelson (who also produced.) It stars no one you ever heard of, […]

This has, of course, been billed as a “lost” Fifties science fiction film. Not that the label really fits. Destination Space was instead the pilot for a television series that never got made. Long time television character actor Harry Townes got a rare starring role, with John Agar second billed and Edward Platt (“The Chief” […]

One of the biggest mistakes first time filmmakers make is that their ambitions overwhelmingly exceed their capabilities. Fortunately, no one ever warned Derek Pearson about this. Pearson spent five years and about $60,000 creating his backyard movie. An inventor, struggling to recreate something that happened in his lab earlier, is unaware that his girlfriend is […]

The 1970s were the age of the TV movie. The American networks brought a remarkable number of interesting horror and science fiction films to the air for more than a decade, with a little help from producers like Dan Curtis, writers like Richard Matheson, and even the young Steven Spielberg behind the camera. Of course, excellent films […]

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, something truly strange turns up. Soviet SF has a tendency to be a little dry, more intelligent than similar US efforts, with a fondness for hardware-heavy portrayals of space travel, vague socialist futures where everyone is happy together (and therefore politics don’t matter) and sometimes, a turgid […]

A science fiction film by the guy who wrote Pontypool??? Generally, that seems to be what most people have to say about Ejecta. After all, there have been almost as many movies about people who’ve been abducted by evil grey aliens as there have been zombie movies. Okay, maybe not quite that many, but still, […]

Roger Corman. I would be hard pressed to point to any other name which is on so many good films and yet still causes a shiver of dread when it shows up on the film you happen to be watching. Sometimes it is hard to believe that the young guerrilla filmmaker, whose ultra cheap films always had that […]